Excel Switching and NexTone Communications Speed Enhanced Voice Services Time to Market; Leading Session Controller Manufacturer Selected to Join Excel's Growing I3P Program.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HYANNIS, Mass. and GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2003 Excel Switching Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class, open services platforms for communications networks The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. , today announced that NexTone Communications has joined the Excel IP Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and Innovations (I3P I3P Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (Dartmouth College; Hanover, NH) I3P Incubatore Imprese Innovative Politecnico (Innovative Enterprise Incubator of the Politecnico; Turin, Italy) ) Program. The combination of Excel's Converged Services Platform (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) and NexTone's industry-leading core and edge session controller technology, allows global carriers and service providers to offer a variety of revenue generating voice services by directly interconnecting their networks, regardless of whether it is traditional Public Switched Transport Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) or an emerging next generation network powered by SIP or H.323 technologies. "With the addition of NexTone to our I3P Program, we now offer carriers the most comprehensive product offering for IP-based enhanced voice services," said JC Murphy, president of Excel Switching Corporation. "NexTone session controllers offer a proven solution that addresses the business and technical issues of our customers and partners. NexTone's solution provides VoIP capabilities for signaling interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. , network security, multi-vendor interoperability, and policy based A decision made by any software application that is based on the policy (rules and regulations) of the organization. See policy and COPS. call routing. These advanced capabilities enable our joint solution to bridge the gap between legacy and next-generation networks." The powerful combination of Excel's CSP with NexTone's session controllers will speed the deployment of enhanced voice services to carriers and service providers worldwide. Excel's CSP is the first open services platform to address the needs of carriers and service providers for profitable applications, this is accomplished by bridging existing wired and wireless networks, as well as next-generation Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) networks. The nature of the CSP's open platform enables developers to quickly and easily create new and existing applications for service providers' customers, thus boosting overall profitability and speed to market. In combination with Excel's CSP, NexTone's session controllers extend the service reach of these applications to users of the PSTN and voice over IP (VoIP) networks and provide service providers with increased revenues and maximum return on their investment. "Excel offers a powerful enabling platform that gives carriers and service providers the ability to quickly build, deploy, and localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. voice applications across any type of network infrastructure," said Raj raj also Raj n. Dominion or rule, especially the British rule over India (1757-1947). [Hindi r Sharma, president of NexTone Communications. "In combination with our session controllers, carriers can now reap the benefits of the CSP as they roll out new services to their customers via IP. NexTone is excited to be Excel's session controller I3P Partner of choice and we look forward to sharing our experience with the Excel team and their customers." About NexTone Communications NexTone Communications is the leading provider of carrier-class session controllers for the delivery of real-time services over packet networks, such as voice over IP. NexTone solutions enable carriers and service providers to securely, simply and cost-effectively interconnect networks. The company is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, USA with European headquarters in London, England and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.nextone.com. About Excel Switching Corporation Founded in 1988, Excel Switching Corporation is a leading provider of carrier-class, open services platforms for original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. , and self-developing service providers worldwide. As a profitable company with over 125 customers worldwide, Excel provides the Converged Services Platform (CSP), the first open services platform that addresses carriers' needs for profitable applications by bridging the existing wired and wireless networks, as well as IP networks. By working closely with its application partners, Excel provides customers with highly reliable, localized solutions designed to meet their immediate and future needs. For more information, visit www.xl.com. |
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